Toward the end of the aughts, North's
electronic omnipresence led to fan fatigue, which was less an indictment of North's work than of the industry's unoriginality.
Viola's convulsive images, foreshadowing both the sensory torture techniques employed by the US military at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and the millennial
omnipresence of
electronic screens, portray the nightmare of sleep as sleep perennially deferred.